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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

MICAJAH E. BURRIS, F BROOKLYN, NEWT YORK.

SIE-H3CIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,458, dated March 6, 1883.

i Application filed January 1B. 1883. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, M. E. BURRIS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of drawings, in which- Figure lis a longitudinal section of anaxlebox and spindle having my improved sleeve and nut attached. Figs. 2 and 3- are modications of the sleeve and nut attached together by means of pins and annular grooves. Fig. 4 shows the sleeve and nut connected together by means of screw-threads. Figs. 5 and 6 are modifications ot' the sleeve and nut connected together by screw-threads. Fig. 7 Vis a sectional view of the sleeve detached.

A is the axle-box, and B is the spindle, having the threaded end b provided with the longitudinal groove c. rlhe spindle is made the same size in diameter from its outer end to the end of the axle-box.

D is my improved non-revoluble sleeve, having the cup d, constructed vtov hold the washer d', and to lap the end of the axle-box, and provided in the outer end with the cup c', constructed to receive and lap the end c2 ot' the nut C. The sleeve is provided between its two cups with a bridge, b', made to it very closely over the threaded end of the spindle, and having across its entire width a lug or feather, c3, made to fit very snugly in the groove c. The sleeve and. nut are attached together by means of pins and grooves, or by screw-threads. To attach them by pins, the end c2 of the nut is made to it closely and revolve in the cup cof the sleeve, and one or more pins, b2, are inserted through the sleeve into an animular groove, b3, formed in the nut, as shown in Fig.

l of the drawings. The annular groove must be made true and uniform, and the pins, made to tit snugly in the grooves, must be inserted through the sleeve in position to hold the end of the sleeve closely to the flange c4 of the nut. My non-revoluble sleeve, made as set forth in the above-named patent, may be .attached to the nut by means of the pins and grooves, as shown in Fig. 3' of the drawings, in which case the pins are inserted through the overlapping ange ofthe nut into an annular groove formed in the sleeve. sleeve and nut together by screw-threads, the sleeve and nut may be constructed and the threads formed on them, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6; oran outer sleeve, D', may be employed, -made to [it over the square part of the nut, and adjusted to bear against the shoulder d2 of the nut, and provided with a threaded iiange, d3to tit and screw over the threaded surface of the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. together are handled as one article, and the sleeve is not lia-ble to be mislaid or lost in handling. ln adjusting them on the axle the sleeve is placed over the end of the .spindle and turned either way till the feather enters the groove, and the sleeve is then pressed along the spindle till the end of the nut meets the end of the spindle, in which position the nut is held by the sleeve in `righi: line with the spindle, so that the screw-threads necessarily enter correctly, avoiding entirely the usual liability 4ot' crossing and stripping the threads.

Instead of making the nut with the projecting flange o4, as shown in Fig. l, that flange on the nut-maybe made-Hush with the outside of the sleeve, which may he made with the projecting flange c5, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, which construction may be preferable in some cases to avoid the liability lof contact of the nut with hubs improperly boxed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l f l. The combination, with an axle-spindle, B, of the non-revoluble sleeve D, provided with the cup d, constructed to hold the washer d', and to lap the end of the axle-box, and attached to the axle-nut, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with an axle-spindle,

The sleeve and nut thus attachedy To connect the IOO B, of the non-revoluble sleeve D, provided In testimony whereof I ax my sgnaturcin in the inner end with the cup d, constructed presence of two witnesses. to hold the washer d', and to lap the end of the axle-box, and provided in the outer end MICAJAH ELLIOTT BURRIS. with the cup c', to receive and lap the end of the axle-nut, and attached to the nut by de- W'tnesses:

vices substantially as and for the purposes H. A. DANIELS,

described. E. J. SWEET. 

